womanizer

English

Alternative forms

• womaniser (non-Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

From womanize +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈwʊm.əˌnaɪ.zəɹ/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

womanizer (plural womanizers)

1. A man who habitually flirts with and seduces, or attempts to seduce, women.
   • 1987 May 3, William Safire, “ON LANGUAGE; Vamping Till Ready”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     A couple of months ago, in a piece about the language of self-involvement, I quoted a girlfriend of Woody Allen as having described the actor as "very much of a womanizer, very self-involved."

   • 2013 April 22, Jane Garapick, “Womanizer Signs: 5 Warning Signs That You're Dating A Womanizer”, in HuffPost‎^[2]:

     Getting back into the dating game after a painful divorce is never easy, and the proliferation of womanizers looking to take advantage of your vulnerability only makes things worse.

Synonyms

• bounder
• cad
• Casanova
• lady's man
• lecher
• Lothario
• philanderer
• playboy
• player
• rake
• Romeo
• skirt chaser
• wencher

 

Derived terms

• modelizer

Related terms

• womanise
• womanize
• man-eater

Translations

habitual seducer of women

• Albanian: cubar (sq) m, lakmues (sq) m
• Arabic: زِير نِسَاء m (zīr nisāʔ), مُتَأَنِّق m (mutaʔanniq)

  Egyptian Arabic: نسوانجي m (niswāngī)

• Bikol Central: makibabayi
• Breton: merc'hetaer (br) m
• Catalan: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 好色之徒 (zh) (hàosèzhītú), 花花公子 (zh) (huāhuāgōngzi), 色狼 (zh) (sèláng)

• Cimbrian: baibarar m
• Czech: sukničkář (cs) m
• Danish: skørtejæger c
• Dutch: vrouwenloper m, wijvenloper m
• Esperanto: donĵuano
• Finnish: pelimies (fi), naistenmies (fi)
• French: coureur (fr) m, coureur de jupons (fr) m, cavaleur (fr) m, homme à femmes (fr) m, Don Juan (fr) m, womanizer (fr) m (anglicism)
• Georgian: მექალთანე (mekaltane)
• German: Frauenheld (de) m, Schürzenjäger (de) m, Weiberheld (de) m, Womanizer (de) m
• Greek: γυναικάς (el) m (gynaikás)
• Hungarian: nőcsábász (hu)
• Icelandic: kvennabósi (is) m, flagari (is) m, slarkari m
• Indonesian: bandot (id)
• Irish: drúisire
• Italian: donnaiolo (it) m, farfallone (it) m
• Japanese: 女たらし (おんなたらし, onnatarashi)
• Javanese: bandhot (jv)
• Kalmyk: эмсг (emsg)
• Kazakh: әйелжанды (äieljandy), қатыншыл (qatynşyl), әйелқұмар (äielqūmar), қатынжанды (qatynjandy), қатынқұмар (qatynqūmar)
• Korean: 오입 쟁이 (oip jaeng'i)
• Kyrgyz: катынпоз (katınpoz)
• Latin: mulierārius m, fēmellārius m
• Latvian: brunču mednieks m, pavedējs m, donžuāns m, kazanova m
• Macedonian: женкар m (ženkar)
• Persian: دخترباز (fa) (doxtar-bâz), زنباره (fa) (zan-bâre)
• Polish: kobieciarz (pl) m, babiarz (pl) m, tulipan (pl) m (colloquial), bawidamek (pl) m, podrywacz (pl) m
• Portuguese: mulherengo (pt) m, namorador (pt) m
• Romanian: afemeiat (ro) m, vânător de fuste m, crai (ro) m (ironic), muieratic (ro) m
• Russian: ба́бник (ru) m (bábnik), донжуа́н (ru) m (donžuán), казано́ва m (kazanóva), ю́бочник (ru) m (júbočnik), ловела́с (ru) m (lovelás), да́мский уго́дник (ru) m (dámskij ugódnik) (somewhat dated)
• Scottish Gaelic: drùisire m, drùisear m, drùiseach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: женскар m

  Roman: ženskar (sh) m

• Slovak: sukničkár f
• Spanish: mujeriego (es) m, gallinazo (es) m, rompecorazones (es) m or f, donjuán (es) m, cachero del oeste m (Chile) , lacho (es) m (pejorative, Chile), picaflor (es) m, bajapantis m (Puerto Rico), bajablumer (Puerto Rico)
• Swedish: kvinnotjusare (sv) c
• Tagalog: babaero
• Thai: เสือผู้หญิง (th) (sʉ̌ʉa-pûu-yǐng)
• Turkish: zampara (tr), kadıncıl (tr), zendost (tr) (archaic), keskin (tr) (rare), amcı
• Ukrainian: жінколюб (žinkoljub)
• Welsh: merchetwr
• Yiddish: ווײַבערניק m (vaybernik)

See also

• Thesaurus:libertine